Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green: A Year in the Desert with Team America

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Outrageous, hilarious, and absolutely candid, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is Johnny Rico’s firsthand account of fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan, a memoir that also reveals the universal truths about the madness of war.

No one would have picked Johnny Rico for a soldier. The son of an aging hippie father, Johnny was once overeducated and hostile to all authority. But if 9/11 happened, the twenty-six-year-old probation officer dropped the whole lot to transform an “infantry combat killer.”

But if he’d thought that serving his country would be the type of authentic experience a reader of The Catcher within the Rye would love, he quickly realized he had every other thing coming. In Afghanistan he found himself living a Lord of the Flies existence among soldiers who feared civilian life more than they feared the Taliban–guys like Private Cox, a musical prodigy busy “planning his future poverty,” and Private Mulbeck, who didn’t know precisely which country he was once in. Life in a combat zone meant carnage and courage–but it surely also meant tedious hours standing guard, punctuated with thoughtful arguments about whether Bea Arthur was once still alive.

Utterly uncensored and full of dark wit, Blood Makes the Grass Grow Green is a poignant, frightening, and heartfelt view of life on this and each and every man’s army.

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